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Taxi drivers can be blacklisted and services named and shamed if they violate a new code of ethics inked between the Ministry of Tourism and the Guyana Taxi Association, officials said at the weekend.

APNU parliamentarian Deborah Backer has called on the government to ensure CARICOM remains firmly in Guyana’s corner on the border dispute with Venezuela in light of the political uncertainty in Caracas following President Hugo Chavez’s death. Her call came on Friday as debate on the 2013 budget estimates continued in the National Assembly.

Chief Justice Ian Chang has granted a conditional order quashing the decision by Chief of Staff of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Commodore Gary Best to send four military officers on leave.

The owner of Red Dragon Night Club was Friday granted bail for allegedly trafficking in one Brazilian female. Raymond “Clement’ Ali,61, of  15 Delhi Street, Prashad Nagar Selwyn “Selly” Lewis of Nutmeg Street, Festival City, Georgetown are accused of keeping a female juvenile for the purpose of exploitation. The female’s name is being withheld. Lewis was not in court and  Ali was ...

A Police Corporal was Friday charged with four counts of assault allegedly committed on several persons who had blocked lawmen and Mines Officers from entering Marudi where there are a number of illegal gold miners.

Men and boys should be the primary targets of initiatives to counter domestic violence, APNU parliamentarian Volda Lawrence says. Joining the budget debate on Thursday, Lawrence, who holds the shadow portfolio for human services, said she believed that women and girls were now an “endangered species.”

An elderly British national has died after he went swimming at the Pegasus Hotel, police say. A release from the Guyana Police Force identified the man as Julian Dere, 77.

The Guyana Karate College (GKC) on Sunday March 30,2013 held its first grading examinations for the year 2013 at its main dojo located at the Malteenoes Sports Club in ThomasLands in Georgetown.

The twice postponed 30th Congress of the PPP will be held in Port Mourant, Corentyne, on August 2 – 4. It will provide an opportunity for the Party to seek out inspiration from the birthplace of its founder. It was in Berbice, the traditional stronghold of the PPP, that the greatest loss of votes took place and the greatest apathy ...

The slow dismantling of Cheddi Jagan’s legacy of reasoned debate as a method of convincing opponents and educating supporters began at the turn of the century. It created the opening for the introduction of  an alternative approach to political discourse – the cuss-down. Many had hoped that with the change in Government, this particularly degrading and offensive type of verbal ...